Chris Ealham

Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain.

Chris Ealham
Born	1965  Kent

Biography

Born in Kent (England) in 1965.^[1][2] He earned a PhD in 1995 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, reading a dissertation titled Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, supervised by Paul Preston.^[3][4]

A former lecturer at Cardiff University and Lancaster University, Ealham, based in Madrid, works as lecturer at Saint Louis University Madrid Campus.^[5] A partaker in the often acrimonious debate on Spanish civil war historiography, Ealham argues populist historians have set in motion a pro-Franco revisionism in Civil War studies.^[6]

Works

Author

• La lucha por la ciudad: clase, cultura y conflicto social en Barcelona, 1898-1937 (in Spanish). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2005.^[7]
• Anarchism and the city: Revolution and counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937. Oakland: AK Press. 2010.^[8]
• Barcelone contre ses habitants 1835–1937, quartiers ouvriers de la revolution (in French). Toulouse: Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition. 2014.
• Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement. Oakland: AK Press. 2015.
  • Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2016.^[9][10][11]
• Les anarchistes dans la ville: révolution et contre-révolution à Barcelone, 1898-1937 (in French). Marseille: Éditions Agone. 2021.

Editor

• Ealham, Chris; Richards, Michael, eds. (2005). The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press.^[12]